The deceased deserved neither his tragic fate as victim of an armed ambush and assault, nor his posthumous and embellished elevation as a glorious martyr for a questionable political faith and even more dubious social cause.

As for his alleged assailant, he apparently suffered the misfortune of being a colorful three-dimensional figure born into a rigidly two-dimensional household that resides in a black-and-white community with a dim collective view of any misfits amongst them.

My cousin and her neo-conservative husband - a doctrinaire control freak who was MAGA before there ever was a MAGA movement - relocated to southern Utah in the 1990s, as have thousands of other SoCal expats. They moved first to St. George and then 50 miles north to Cedar City, all to escape that woke liberal latter-day Sodom and Gomorrah otherwise known as metropolitan L.A.

They did their best to blend in as a Catholic family who had parachuted into the middle of a very Mormon community, but my cousin's three kids definitely failed to fit in and really did not thrive there. All three eventually escaped Cedar City (as two of them termed it) and relocated elsewhere. The youngest moved to Las Vegas (three hours south), the middle child married a college sweetheart from Tacoma, WA and moved there, and the eldest returned to the familiar haunts of L.A. and Pasadena.

Utah is an absolutely gorgeous state to visit but sociologically and culturally, it is literally its own parallel universe populated by an array of religious iconoclasts, domineering men with deferential wives (an in some cases, sister wives) and archconservative expats who all view the outside world - even the capital of Salt Lake City - as far too freewheeling and unconventional for their liking. And that's the backdrop in which this tragic and tawdry drama is presently playing out.

Prior to a live performance of excerpts from the album with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Carlos was apprehensive about appearing in public. She put on fake sideburns and a man's wig, and drew on facial hair with an eyebrow pencil to appear more masculine. She did the same thing again when she met Kubrick, and for an appearance on The Dick Cavett Show in 1970.[34]

Finally, the commercial success of Switched-On Bach allowed Carlos the funds to undergo feminizing surgery in May 1972

I read recently a piece about the Pennsylvania shooter's parents. The mother quit her job stating clearly it was due to ramifications of what her son did. The neighbors have not seen the parents since it happened. It is surmised they only come out of the house at night to set their trash out and collect their mail, but no one has actually witnessed them doing it. I can't imagine the suffering a family is going to experience after this. Life how they knew it is over. I wonder if they are going to lose the permit to own the "ma duece"?

"You heard the family members say that this young man became more political in recent years. But what did he do in recent years? He went to college. That is where kids are getting radicalized. Not just online, our campuses are where a lot of radicalization, hate, and intolerance starts from. So, when he says it's an attack on all of us, I'll just say this: No, it was an attack on conservatives, it was an attack on Christians."

For the record, Tyler Robinson was radicalized at St. George, UT's notorious hotbed of Marxist extremism and Leninist sedition, Dixie Technical College, where he was studying to attain his certification as an electrician - and, if Ms. Duffy is correct, apparently also minored in Maoist socio-political theory.

This is just lunacy. How did these people come to be so effin stupid? And why are they always gravitating to Fox News, like insects to a bug lamp?